New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-10

the Assembly Committee; but we imagine that
they lack the intelligence to appreciate their
positions. One Justice of the Peace said he
kept no record of fines, and later promised to
produce one. From the fines whlchhe collected.
he said, he deducted costs and then turned
them over to the County Treasurer-Only he
had never turned any over. Is this duplicity
or ignorance or stupidity-Or all three3
Mr. Gladstone has gone into the campaign OF
protest against Coercion with his old-time
yigor. He is out with manifesto to the miners
of the n )rth of England in which he urges
them and all other workingmen, to denounce
the Crimes bill and prevent shame and dlshOnor
to England. There is less crime, he says, In
Ireland, relatively to the population, than In
England. 1t is in work of this KIND that the
ex-Premier is particularly strong. If only his
health holds out, he will raise the feeling in
England against the bill to a point that will
make its passage harder than its supporters
DOW anticipate.
The amount of Miss Catharine l.. WOlfe's
fortune is not known by any one probably, but
q safe estimate places 1t at $15,OOO,OOO. 1t
win be noted that the bulk Of il, after deduct
ing the public requests, is pretty evenly di-
yided among her relatives. This last will and
Testament Is plainly that of woman who knew
her own mind, and was just and firm. No sin
gular conditions accompany the legacies, I'M
less indeed the provision that what goes to fe-
male relatives shall be for "their sole and sep
arste uses be considered alittle over careful
1t is gratifying fact that the will offends no
body. so that there is no chance of contest.
The person to begin legal fight over Miss
Wolfe's property would not be popular in this
community.
No one interested in the city's growth and
development can afford to overlook the article
% new buildings printed on the eleventh page
Of this issue. There is unusual activity in the
building trade. During the first three months
of this year 1,4O4 permits for new structures
were issued, against 1.079 in the correspond
ing period last year; the amounts to be spent
on them being respectively 500, 139, $40 and
17,4S8,643. The advance is about 25 per
cent-a showing which few people will be in
cfined to find fault with. Dwellings and apart
ment-houses of course predominant among the
buildings gong up. but many business and
Office buildings and several churches and
school houses are included in the list.
There seems to be great need of high.
license law in Paris, where crimes of drink are
sadly on the increase. THE TRIBUNE's CORE
spondent in the French capital ascribes this
change for the worse in French morals to the
collaboration of wines, now 30 common since the
phylloxera has ruined many of the great vine
yards. The evil might be easily mitigated if
the sale of mixtures of fusil Oil and alcohol
could be stopped and this certainly might be
done if some law prevailed which would clear
out the liquor-selling shops in the lowest quar-
ters of the town. Local option, our correspond
emit Thinks if placed in the hands of French
women might work well. The trouble of that
would be that the drunken husbands would
make life miserable for any wives who tried to
interfere with the sale of their deadly bever-
ages. High license would place the response
bility On the authorities.
The casting of $4,000 Socialistic votes in
Chicago at the last municipal election, has
made New Workers wonder how many citizens
Of that kind there are here. The answer will
be found elsewhere in this paper. 1t must
be always borne in mind that there is great
difference between Anarchists and Socialists.
John Most, who is just out of prison and who
seems TO want to go back soon, leads the
Anarchists, who number thousand, perhaps,
and who are opposed to any government at all.
The Socialists, on the contrary. of whom there
are some thousands in this city, want the State
70 own everything and conduct all enterprises.
Itwill be evident from consideration of these
facts that no fear need be felt of either Of these